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A provocative and enduring work that reexamines humanity s place in the natural world -and the spirit s relation to the flesh -- in the light of Chinese Taoism. That human beings
stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to
the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction -- a danger and a problem-are all
assumptions upon which much of Western thought and culture is based. And all of them in
some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotion, and our loneliness
and reluctance to love. Few books have challenged those assumptions as directly as this
erudite and engaging work by the author of The Way of Zen. Drawing on the precepts of
Taoism, Alan Watts offers an alternative vision of man and the universe -- one in which the
distinctions between self and other, spirit and matter give way to a more holistic way of
seeing. Nature, Man and Woman is a book of great elegance and far-reaching implication - one of those